In the 1930s, Vietnamese Trotskyism was among the most significant currents of the anti-Stalinist left in the colonial world. The split in the global communist movement did not prevent some cooperation between Trotskyists and Stalinists, including around the French-language newspaper La Lutte in Saigon. Robert J. Alexander traces the movement from its origins among Vietnamese students in Paris to its physical annihilation by Hồ Chí Minh's Viet Minh government in 1945–46.
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Ukraine's Ministry of Economy commissioned a White Paper from the Tony Blair Institute projecting that its draft Labour Code would formalise 302,000 jobs and generate €835 million in additional budget revenue. Vitaliy Dudin, a labour lawyer with Sotsialnyi Rukh (Social Movement), shows that the provisions on which those projections rested were stripped from the bill before it was registered in parliament in early 2026. What remains — Bill No. 14386 — would expand employers' grounds for (…)

Le ministère de l'Économie d'Ukraine a commandé à l'Institut Tony Blair un « Livre blanc » prévoyant que son projet de Code du travail formaliserait 302 000 emplois et générerait 835 millions d'euros de recettes budgétaires supplémentaires. Vitaliy Dudin, avocat spécialisé en droit du travail au sein de Sotsialnyi Rukh (Mouvement social --- Соціальний рух), démontre que les dispositions sur lesquelles ces projections étaient fondées ont été supprimées du texte avant son dépôt au Parlement en (…)

Pour le deuxième jour consécutif, des Ukrainiennes et des Ukrainiens sont dans les rues — à Kyiv, Lviv, Rivne, Odesa, Dnipro, Poltava, Mykolaïv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopil, Zaporizhzhia, Kropyvnytskyi, Cherkasy, et au sein de la diaspora. Le 14 juillet, le Parlement ukrainien a voté la destitution de l'ensemble du gouvernement de la Première ministre Yuliia Svyrydenko. Parmi les partants se trouvait Mykhailo Fedorov — jusqu'en janvier 2026 ministre ukrainien de la Transformation numérique, (…)

For the second consecutive day, Ukrainians are on the streets — in Kyiv, Lviv, Rivne, Odesa, Dnipro, Poltava, Mykolaïv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopil, Zaporizhzhia, Kropyvnytskyi, Cherkasy, and in the diaspora. On 14 July, Ukraine's parliament voted to dismiss the entire government of Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko. Among those who went with it was Mykhailo Fedorov — until January 2026 Ukraine's Minister of Digital Transformation, then its Defence Minister, and in both roles the principal (…)